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New units for perinatal mental health disorders: Description of the first 150 dyads attended at Mother Baby Day Hospital CLINIC-BCN

Publicated to:Revista De Psiquiatria Y Salud Mental. 17 (1): 41-45 - 2024-03-01 17(1), DOI: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2022.06.004

Authors: Roca-Lecumberri, Alba; Torres, Anna; Andres, Susana; Naranjo, Carmen; Roda, Ester; Lopez, Cristina; Sureda, Barbara; Sole, Eva; Imaz, Maria Luisa; Lera, Sara; Mallorqui, Andrea; Garcia-Esteve, Lluisa

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Introduction: Perinatal Mental Disorders are considered a public health problem due to the impact on both, the maternal health and the children, in the short and long term. During 2018, at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, the first Mother Baby Day Hospital (MBDH) in Spain was developed and implemented. Method: The first 150 dyads (mother and baby) attended from January 2018 to October 2021 were selected. The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were described. The clinical variables studied were anxious and depressive symptoms, mother–baby relationship and maternal functionality. Results: The mean age of mothers was 34 years and of babies 3.7 months. 80% had a psychiatric background and 30.7% had required some psychiatric inpatient admission. 48.7% of the patients were diagnosed with a major depressive episode and a half had some psychiatric comorbidity (54.7%). One in 3 patients admitted had a moderate–high suicidal risk and 10.7% had attempted suicide in the current episode. At discharge, significant improvements were observed in the scales of depression (EPDS), anxiety (STAI-E), mother–baby relationship (PBQ) and functionality (HoNOS). Conclusions: The MBDH allows us a comprehensive, intensive and multidisciplinary care for postpartum mothers with a mental disorder with good results and containment of risk behaviours. Likewise, MBDH allows us to detect and to intervene in bonding difficulties and maternal care giving. © 2022 SEP y SEPB

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BondingMother-baby unitPerinatal mental healthPostpartumSuicide

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista De Psiquiatria Y Salud Mental due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 32/279, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Psychiatry.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-06-01:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-01:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 25.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 24 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Roca Lecumberri, Alba) and Last Author (Garcia Esteve, Luisa).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Roca Lecumberri, Alba.